A multi-vitamin administered daily to pregnant women can help curb infant mortality in developing countries as it reduces the risk of premature births and increases infant birth weight, shows a trial carried out in rural Bangladesh.

Irish doctors who have been keeping a brain-dead pregnant woman on life support in hope of saving her 17-week-old foetus pleaded in court today to be permitted to turn off the machines because their treatment was becoming horrific and could not end in a successful birth.

Farzana Iqbal, 25, was attacked on Tuesday, police said, because she had married the man she loved. Her husband said that police did nothing during the 15 minutes the violence lasted outside Lahore High Court.

She had a sizeable role in Rajkumar Hirani`s 2009 box office biggie "3 Idiots", but after that actress Mona Singh wasn`t too active on the big screen and the small screen star blames it on stereotype offers.